emerald green

noun

1. a clear, deep-green color.

Other Word Forms

• emerald-green adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of emerald green¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Goff’s students adapted his radical approach particularly well to Northern California’s dramatic landscapes, ranging from emerald green bluffs and cascading valleys to fog-embraced coastlines.

From Los Angeles Times

This community in the central Mexican state of Michoacán is home to about 1,500 people, many of whom make a living planting corn, plums, peaches and other crops that cut symmetrical rows through the verdant hillsides — now glistening an emerald green, the bounty of recent rains.

From Los Angeles Times

Bedecked with emerald green feathers and a rose-red beak, the ring-neck parakeets have become the star attraction at the Waterworks Park.

From BBC

Shergar won the Derby at Epsom in 1981 by 10 lengths in the Aga Khan's emerald green racing silks with red epaulets but was kidnapped in Ireland two years later and never found.

From BBC

First daughter Ivanka Trump matched Melania's serious colour palette with an emerald green skirt suit with a matching hat.

From BBC